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Whitehead, Thomas (November 2, 2016). "Donkey Kong Jungle Beat Hitting the North American Wii U eShop This Week". Nintendo Life. Archived from the original on June 11, 2020 . Retrieved June 11, 2020. If you still disagree, please explain how exactly the titles Arcade Archives Donkey Kong (Switch eShop) and Donkey Kong (GB) trumps these points. a b Good, Owen S. (May 8, 2016). "Donkey Kong's all-time record broken again, with a 'perfect' game (update)". Polygon . Retrieved November 9, 2023. In Wales, its a legal requirement that all road signs and government papers, forms etc are in both English and Welsh, and there are TV and radio stations entirely in Welsh. If you are in one of the main big cities in the South like Cardiff, Newport or Swansea, only a small percentage of people are fluent, and they all speak English so that everyone can understand them. But in more rural villages and small towns, especially up north, its many people's first language they learn, and the one they speak the most often. Its similar to Canada having everything in both English and French, but only certain areas speaking French as their first language. Parish, Jeremy (June 27, 2013). "Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze full E3 interview". USgamer. Archived from the original on December 5, 2020 . Retrieved December 10, 2022.a b IGN staff (June 14, 2004). "Donkey Kong Jungle Beat Info". IGN. Archived from the original on June 18, 2004 . Retrieved July 9, 2020. van Duyn, Marcel (June 17, 2011). "Donkey Kong Review (3DS eShop / GB)". Nintendo Life . Retrieved November 16, 2023. Campbell, Evan (April 4, 2023). "Review Roundup For The Super Mario Bros. Movie". GameSpot . Retrieved November 17, 2023. See also: List of Donkey Kong video games 1981–1982: Conception and first game [ edit ] Donkey Kong creator Shigeru Miyamoto in 2013

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In the late 1970s, the Japanese company Nintendo shifted its focus from producing toys and playing cards to arcade games. This followed the 1973 oil crisis having increased the cost of manufacturing toys and the success of Taito's Space Invaders (1978). In 1980, Nintendo released Radar Scope, a Space Invaders-style shoot 'em up. [1] It was a commercial failure and put the newly established subsidiary Nintendo of America in a financial crisis. Its founder, Minoru Arakawa, asked his father in-law, the Nintendo CEO Hiroshi Yamauchi, to provide a new game that could salvage the unsold Radar Scope cabinets. [2] Most of Nintendo's top developers were preoccupied, so the task went to Shigeru Miyamoto, a first-time game designer. [3] [4] Sheff, David (1994). Game Over: How Nintendo Conquered the World (1st Vintage booksed.). New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 9780307800749. OCLC 780180879. Kaluszka, Aaron (September 10, 2007). "DK Jungle Climber". Nintendo World Report . Retrieved February 19, 2023. Calvert, Justin (October 21, 2005). "Donkey Kong Country 3 Hands-On". GameSpot . Retrieved February 19, 2023.Both Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Country are frequently cited as two of the best video games of all time; the former for its impact on the golden age of arcade video games, [180] [181] [182] and the latter for its "groundbreaking" usage of pre-rendered 3D graphics and atmospheric music. [183] [184] [185] Maxim included Donkey Kong Country at number 14 on their list of 'The 30 Best Video Game Franchises of All Time', describing the series as "some of the best platforming games on Nintendo's consoles". [186] In the 2017 book the 100 Greatest Video Game Franchises, Donkey Kong is characterized as "a symbol, representing both the timelessness and timeliness of video games". [187] Brett Cardaro of Comic Book Resources placed Donkey Kong at number 10 on his list of the '15 Best Nintendo Franchises'. [188] Sales [ edit ] Kietzmann, Ludwig (August 22, 2007). "Diddy Kong joins Smash Bros. Brawl roster". Engadget . Retrieved November 17, 2023. And yeah for some reason the whole Action Max / Worlds of Wonder Nintendo and Atari partnership is really unknown by the gaming community at large, even though it was well documented in Newpapers and business/financial media at the time. WoW were the biggest toy company in the world for a shirt while, having had the #1 selling toy 2 years in a row. The Action Max, on the other hand, was awful, and rightfully tanked. I should know, I was foolish enough to buy a mint boxed one for the video 😂